That’s a fair question.

Significant portion of what we do is already maintenance and operations: keeping infrastructure running, maintaining compatibility with Hive changes, handling support requests, security updates, abuse prevention, onboarding systems, APIs, image hosting, search services, mobile apps and the web platform.

Pure "keep the lights on" mode could reduce costs further, but it would also mean less active maintenance, slower fixes, reduced support, fewer improvements and eventually a decline in the quality and reliability of the services many users and applications depend on.

Over the past few weeks we have reviewed our infrastructure, operational expenses, and administrative costs multiple times, which is why we reduced the proposal from 333 HBD/day to 250 HBD/day and now again to 200 HBD/day after optimizations.

We will continue looking for efficiencies but we also want to ensure that the services we operate remain reliable, secure and actively maintained.